Wind may generate 30 pct of (global) electricity by 2030-study

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L19108514.htm

OSLO, Sept 20 (Reuters) - Wind power could generate almost 30 percent of the world's electricity by 2030 and is growing faster than any other clean energy source, a wind business group and environmental lobby Greenpeace said on Wednesday.

"At good locations wind can compete with the cost of both coal and gas-fired power," the Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC) and Greenpeace said in the study.

The two said that wind, which now accounts for 0.8 percent of the world's electricity supply, was expanding faster than other renewable energies such as solar, geothermal or tidal power in a shift from fossil fuels.

"Wind energy could provide as much as 29 percent of the world's electricity needs by 2030, given the political will to promote its large scale development paired with far-reaching energy efficiency measures," the report said.

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turbines built 20 years ago!


"The wind report said that modern turbines, whose rotors can be 100 metres in diameter, generated 180 times more electricity for half the cost of turbines built 20 years ago."


..and there are more efficient ones coming!